BMC medical informatics and decision making
May 20, 2021
BACKGROUND: Sepsis is a severe illness that affects millions of people worldwide, and its early detection is critical for effective treatment outcomes. In recent years, researchers have used models to classify positive patients or identify the probab...
While fish use continuous and flexible bodies to propel themselves, fish robots are often made from interconnected segments. How many segments do robots need to represent fish movements accurately? We propose a new method to automatically determine p...
In morphology field, the functions of an asymmetric-shaped distal phalanx in human finger have only been inferred. In this study, we used an engineering approach to empirically examine the effects of the shape of distal phalanx on the ability of prec...
Ankle push-off occurs when muscle-tendon units about the ankle joint generate a burst of positive power at the end of stance phase in human walking. Ankle push-off mainly contributes to both leg swing and center of mass (CoM) acceleration. Humans use...
Platelet adhesion to blood vessel walls in shear flow is essential to initiating the blood coagulation cascade and prompting clot formation in vascular disease processes and prosthetic cardiovascular devices. Validation of predictive adhesion kinemat...
Visualizing dynamic processes over large, three-dimensional fields of view at high speed is essential for many applications in the life sciences. Light-field microscopy (LFM) has emerged as a tool for fast volumetric image acquisition, but its effect...
Kinematic analysis is often performed in a lab using optical cameras combined with reflective markers. With the advent of artificial intelligence techniques such as deep neural networks, it is now possible to perform such analyses without markers, ma...
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Apr 26, 2021
Stroke survivors are often left suffering from gait instability due to hemiparesis. This gait dysfunction can lead to higher fall rates and an overall decrease in quality of life. Though there are many post-stroke gait rehabilitation methods in use c...
Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association
Apr 22, 2021
OBJECTIVES: Soft robotic hands are proposed for stroke rehabilitation in terms of their high compliance and low inherent stiffness. We investigated the clinical efficacy of a soft robotic hand that could actively flex and extend the fingers in chroni...
BACKGROUND: Depression, a common worldwide mental disorder, which brings huge challenges to family and social burden around the world is different from fluctuant emotion and psychological pressure in their daily life. Although body signs have been sh...